Photo by Shifaz Huthee “One did not simply put on a Dhivehi Libaas. It was a symbol. The outspoken celebration of a girl becoming a woman. To wear one was to show pride in, and embrace one’s feminine-hood.

Seems that Fiji has a bit of a rep for luridly coloured doves - lucky Fiji! Golden Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus luteovirens), endemic to the Fiji Islands, has a distinctive green plumage with a teal green face and feet. Photo by Philip Felstead.

The Greater blue-eared starling or Greater blue-eared glossy-starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) is a bird that breeds from Senegal east to Ethiopia, Africa. and south through eastern Africa to northeastern South Africa and Angola.